Elena Gilbert has had the worst year of her life, and nothing has gone fight for her. She dreads the holidays coming up, wishing she could just skip them and go straight to the New Year. She's trying to stay positive as she helps her best friend Caroline Forbes and Stefan Salvatore Celebrate their recent Engagement. Fate steps into Elena's life that night when she meets dark, mysterious, and handsome Damon Salvatore. Can Damon and Elena trust fate to give them a break, or will they be fucked over by the fickle bitch that Fate is, as they struggle to understand their sudden, intense feelings towards one another, while dealing with things and people from their pasts that seem to want to make things worse?